was a
film director and
screenwriter from
Japan.
Born in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
, he debuted as an assistant director in
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
's 1961 film ''
Yojimbo
is a 1961 Japanese Samurai cinema, samurai film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Ats ...
''. His film ''
Mount Hakkoda'' won
Mainichi Film Award for Excellence Film in 1978.
Filmography
As director
*1966 : ''
Zero Fighters: Great Air Battle''
*1967 : ''
Zoku izuko e''; based on the 1939 novel ''Izuko e'' by
Yōjirō Ishizaka
*1967 : ''
Sodachi zakari''
*1968 : ''
Judge and Jeopardy''
*1968 : ''
Aniki no koibito''
*1969 : ''
Futari no koibito''
*1969 : ''
Dankon'' (''The Bullet Wounded''; ''Bullet Wound'')
*1970 : ''
Akazukinchan kiotsukete'' (''Take Care, Red Riding Hood''); based on the novel by
Kaoru Shōji
*1971 : ''
Saredowareraga hibi yori wakare no shi''
*1971 : ''
Shiosai
The is a limited express train service in Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It runs from and to on the Bōsō Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture.
Station stops
''Shiosai'' services operate over the Sōbu Main Line, stop ...
''; film version of the Yukio Mishima novel ''
The Sound of Waves
is a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It is a coming-of-age story of the protagonist Shinji and his romance with Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthy ship owner Terukichi. For this book, Mishima was awarded the Shinch ...
''
*1972 : ''
Hajimete no tabi''
*1973 : ''
Submersion of Japan''
*1977 : ''
Mount Hakkoda''
*1978 : ''
Seishoku no ishibumi''
*1980 : ''
Dōran''
*1981 : ''
Hyōryū''; based on the novel by
Akira Yoshimura
was an award-winning Japanese writer. Internationally he is best known for his novels ''Shipwrecks'' and ''On Parole''.
Life and work
Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers' union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, o ...
*1982 : ''
Kaikyō''
*1983 : ''
Shōsetsu Yoshida gakkō''; based on the non-fiction political novel by
Isamu Togawa
was a Japanese writer and political commentator. Togawa was born in the city of Hiratsuka in Kanagawa Prefecture. His father was the novelist and former mayor of Hiratsuka Sadao Togawa and his younger brother was the novelist Itaru Kikumura.
L ...
References
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1931 births
1984 deaths
Japanese film directors
20th-century Japanese screenwriters